Said or suggested what you think will happen in the future based on available information or patterns.
From Latin 'praedicere' meaning to say beforehand, from 'prae' (before) and 'dicere' (to say). It entered English in the 1600s as science developed and people tried to forecast natural events.
The word 'predict' assumes you can know the future through logic, but humans are terrible at prediction—we're overconfident and we miss surprising things. Yet we can't stop trying, which is why we have this word.
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